Overview

6.270 is MIT's Autonomous LEGO Robot Design Competition that spans the course of 3.5 weeks over each IAP. Every year, teams of 2 or 3
students work together to build robots using LEGO and various electronic components (such as motors, servos, etc.), and program them using C.

Objective

The 2012 competition challenged teams to create robots that would "battle for supremacy" in a post-apocalyptic scenario. The two rival teams
start on opposite sides of the playing field, which was a hexagon divided into 6 territories. Players gained points for “exploring” (entering new
territories), "capturing territories" (spinning the gearboxes located in each sextant), "mining resources" (pulling levers in order to collect
ping-pong balls from dispensers in the 6 territories), and finally "depositing resources" (dumping the collected ping-pong balls into a container
in the center of the playing field). While every territory held ten balls, only five could be mined per minute per territory. Each round was 2
minutes long. For the first ten seconds, robots could only explore.

Scoring

40 points per mined resource

40 points per deposited resource

100 points per claimed territory

10 points per visited territory (30 points if visited within first 10 seconds)